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Anindita Basu Sempere @anindita.org · 11/08/2026

Decided to listen to French news while driving today, and the difference in coverage is remarkable. They describe the new anti-vax EO as “Crazy and with no basis in reality.” They went on to describe what science has demonstrated re: vaccine efficacy.

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Mellowwayne @mellowwayne.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

This is fucking insane that Congress is just sitting on their damn hands.

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𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗 @charlescmann.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

My defense-lawyer sister points out people *always* plead, even if they believe they're innocent, because they don't have the resources to fight the gov't. So for only half to plead out is itself a huge loss. For almost half to be tossed is astounding--"I've never seen anything like these numbers."

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Mellowwayne @mellowwayne.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Yea this. I saw that chart and that was a huge qualifier I think should be clearly stated.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

ICE has killed another person, this time by depriving him of life-sustaining medication for a known medical condition. Jesus Manuel Arenas-Silva was detained on Thursday. He was dead by Monday. Per @detentionwatchnetwork.org:

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 10/07/2026

After a months-long occupation, Minnesota is still recovering from a retribution campaign waged by the federal government. Now, Minnesota stands with Houston in demanding accountability for the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. This bloodshed cannot be normalized.

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Wyldefire @wyldefire.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

It would be nice if the media was as interested in Ken Paxton as they are in Graham Platner.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/07/2026

there is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood — of the fact that you owe things to other people. it is a fundamentally childish impulse that they have reconfigured as the height of masculinity, and i think it informs the parasocial attraction to platner.

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Mellowwayne @mellowwayne.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Rare Copy of the Declaration of Independence Is Discovered in London www.nytimes.com/2026/07/02/w...

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Rare Copy of the Declaration of Independence Is Discovered in London

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/07/2026

Oklahoma residents: We identified at least 114 oil field waste injection sites located within a half-mile of a public water well. Is your community impacted? Check out our map: propub.li/446vLhs

Interactive web feature titled: "Does your Oklahoma water system have oil field wastewater wells near public drinking water wells?" The feature prompts the user to "Search for your address, ZIP code or water system name to see how many oil field disposal wells are within a half-mile of a drinking water well." A search bar and a map of the state of Oklahoma is below.

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MS NOW @ms.now · 02/07/2026

MS NOW EXCLUSIVE: "There is no way I'm going to be intimidated." Former special counsel Jack Smith tells @nicollewallace.bsky.social why it's important for him to speak out.

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Chris Meder @evcurvefuturist.com · 02/07/2026

37% of new heavy trucks sold in China: now fully electric. Not delivery vans — 49-tonne heavy-duty rigs. This one swapped ~550 kWh in just 5 mins. Competitive, proven & inevitable. China's heavy EV truck sales surged 182% YoY in 2025, rising from single digits just two years ago.

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Mellowwayne @mellowwayne.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Man O’ Man, and to think how many executives and Republicans here, tied to the oil or gas and diesel based economies will burn our atmosphere into our deaths before we cede the ground to the future. Tesla’s sure isn’t anything close to this…nor will one company foot the bill for this infrastructure.

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Mellowwayne @mellowwayne.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Oh look, we live in Robocop timeline.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

NEW — The sentencing of the Prairieland demonstrators shows the brutality of Trump's war on dissent, but it's not without precedent, @kimkelly.bsky.social writes. History shows us the government has always punished anti-fascism. But this time we can change the narrative in real time. Read here:

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From Haymarket to Prairieland: How dissent has unleashed the long arm of the law

The Prairieland sentencing has dark historical parallels, Kim Kelly writes. But we can change the end of the current story.

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Listened to an NPR story this morning about mass child starvation in Senegal without a single mention of Elon Musk, the guy who gleefully created the conditions for the mass starvation

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 08/06/2026

An investigation by ProPublica and @texastribune.org found more than 60 instances of nepotism, self-dealing and conflicts of interest among 27 private schools that likely would have violated state laws had the schools been public. (Published Aug. 2025)

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Texas Private Schools Hire Relatives and Enrich Insiders. Soon They Can Do It With Taxpayer Money.

An investigation by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune found more than 60 instances of nepotism, self-dealing and conflicts of interest among 27 private schools that likely would have violated state law...

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Jeff Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Periodic reminder that Teapot Dome, the worst scandal in American history prior to Watergate, involved $9 million changing hands. That’s adjusted for inflation. This story by itself is 55500% bigger than Teapot Dome. That’s not a typo.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/06/2026

crazy that under the precedent set by callais, a lily-white congressional delegation formed by "partisan" gerrymandering in a plurality black state passes constitutional muster, while any majority-minority district is constitutionally suspect

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/06/2026

another day, another story about the administration's war on knowledge itself, all in service of allow its corporate patrons free rein to rob us blind and poison our world www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...

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Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I’m not sure why this isn’t being mentioned more, but: IRS policy for 50 years has been that the sitting president & VP get audited every year, in an effort to reassure the public they’re not corruptly abusing the office to enrich themselves.

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

This is a break-glass emergency. It's bad enough they gave two billion of our tax dollars to pay off insurrectionists and white supremacist pedophiles, but now they're also exempting Trump from audits as part of the fake settlement.

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Deal on Compensation Fund Blocks I.R.S. Audits of Trump and His Family

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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

There is no clearer case for the necessity of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 than how quickly southern states moved to eliminate Black-majority districts and dilute Black power after SCOTUS eroded Section 2. SCOTUS’s reasoning was immediately disproven by reality.

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

So many people urge us to vote if we are dissatisfied with our democracy. And yes voting matters. But as today’s Supreme Court ruling tells us, it’s not that simple. Not everyone who should have the right to vote can exercise that right.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

The Roberts Court's position is that if you deserved justice or due process you would be rich bsky.app/profile/mjsd...

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

I don't know what is going to happen. But I would recommend not getting your hopes up about Texas. I speak from experience.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20/02/2026

The Boarmans forbid their family from drinking the water. They stopped inviting friends over. Tammy kept bottled water by the sink for brushing her teeth. They hoped they were close to getting answers. Then the state closed their case.

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Salty, Oily Drinking Water Left Sores in Their Mouths. Oklahoma Refused to Find Out Why.

State regulators discovered strong signs of oil pollution, including high levels of salt and toxic metals, in one family’s drinking water. But for two years, they repeatedly delayed basic tests to fin...

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich

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ACLU @aclu.org · 18/02/2026

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

How is it possible that Kristi Noem still has this job. Imagine if you’re a family member or a shipmate of this guardsman. www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

If you want to understand why rich guys are turning back to eugenics and recreating the rhetoric and theology of slavery, it’s because they know on some level this level of wealth inequality is unjustifiable bsky.app/profile/marl...

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 15/02/2026

ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Democrats need to realize ICE isn’t just—or even primarily—a mass deportation force. ICE is also Trump’s most loyal internal security force which will be used to attack regime opponents and try to steal the election. They should defund his authoritarian capabilities.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10/01/2026

A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter. I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

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Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz

Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

I would have a lot more respect for the “unitary executive” theory of the Constitution if just one of its advocates argued for it when a President they didn’t like was in power.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/12/2025

worth saying that some portion of the freed slaves were themselves illegal aliens having been brought illegally into the united states by smugglers. if the birthright clause applies to them, it applies to undocumented immigrants

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

I can't stop thinking about the purported drug smugglers being murdered by the US military. The punishment for drug offenses isn't the death penalty. This is just bloodlust and men in suits playing with lives they don't care about. It's truly grotesque and gravely compromises this country.

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The Desert Veteran @jkz12769.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Breaking News from CNN: The GA Prosecutor has killed the Election interference case against the Convicted FElon & his allies. What the Fuck‼️This is a bunch of bullshit. Once again the Convicted FElon got away with more crimes.

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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door. This is who it was:

A male Anna’s hummingbird at the door. So nosy! 🤣

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

i’m sure someone else has already put this together but fucking wild he called for members of congress to be hanged the same day the coast guard said a noose is no longer a hate symbol

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 20/11/2025

When tech types pretend to be Christian, remember: nothing is more Anti-Christ than Silicon Valley. A Lancet-published study estimates USAID cuts will kill over 14 million people by 2030. “Whatever you did for the least of my brothers and sisters...” www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj0P...

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"Rovina's Choice" Shows How The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands

YouTube video by The New Yorker

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